Mehwmew

"GSDS/Typhloise: I have a field of expertise; it is rather broad and vague…"



Same here Butterfree, im good at everything, great at nothing.



not saying your not your are great at everything you try.

(trust me im a doctor)

…no i'm not but still… :) and everyone stop bothering her, this ovbiously isn't a news site, this is a fan site!!!

this is Butterfree's site, with whatever she decides is important enough to add. ;)



Butterfree, what is your favorite pokemon game? o.0

and how excited from 1 - 10 are you about the remakes…i'm probably a 6 because pokemon silver was the first game i ever tried to beat :) i was like 5 :P



-goldeen spammy- >.> why don't i get mew!?!?!?! grr

holy balls i spelled it wrong…

rhypherior?….

OMFG MEWTWO!!! SOOO CLOSE TO MEW



*fwee*

[14/05/2009 23:53:05]

GSDS

butterfree, do you think serebii and pokebeach are rival and are competing against each other?

[14/05/2009 23:38:33]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 05-06-09

R'o: Already did; I meant to put up the latest article on Tuesday, but there were problems with the server.

[14/05/2009 22:58:31]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

GSDS/Typhloise: I have a field of expertise; it is rather broad and vague, but news are explicitly not included for some very simple, factual reasons: I have no connections in Japan. I do not know Japanese. I am not interested enough in most of the news to actually bother to write articles about them. Saying I am incapable of running a decent news site is not modesty or self-deprecation; it is simple fact.



It is also not about me feeling somehow inadequate compared to the big sites. The point is that I am not competing with Serebii or PokéBeach, or any other site for that matter, to begin with. I have a website so that I can have the things that I want to have on it. Sometimes I feel there is something other sites are lacking that I think there is need for on the Internet, so I do it myself. Other times I just want to ramble on about something I find interesting, so I do that. I have no interest in trying to make people visit my site instead of somebody else's. I just want to make my content and let those who are interested in it read it. Why must everything be about competition? Come to my site if you think my site has what you're looking for. If you think PokéBeach is a better source of news than the Cave of Speculative Theories (which you really should), then for Christ's sake just go to PokéBeach when you want news! I am not interested in just trying to provide everything that they provide so that people will visit my site instead of theirs.



I have things that they don't have; they have things that I don't have. People can come to my site for the things I have that they don't, and people can go to their sites for the things that they have that I don't. I am perfectly happy with that state of affairs.



The "spammifier" (though that's a word invented by guestbookgoers) is there to prevent bots from posting automatic advertisements. Since a bot has no idea what the displayed Pokémon is or even that you're supposed to be typing the name of a Pokémon to begin with, it will not be able to post.



KyuuFox: …uh, that's not going to happen? Why in the world would they do that? You might as well say, "What if in next month's CoroCoro they have a huge picture of a Cherubi with an eraser on its head saying 'HIIII'?" o_O I mean, it's technically valid speculation, but why would anybody take the possibility seriously?

[14/05/2009 22:56:05]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

ShinyRiolu: …well, that is mighty odd. See, the name "Stareon's Hideout" rang a bell, so I searched my e-mail inbox for it. Blursh e-mailed me in April last year to apologize for being rude to me when I criticized her site in her comment box. When I responded with the same confusion as I responded to you and asked what incident she was referring to, it came out that she was referring to when I complained about her listing my site as an affiliate of hers (which is not even remotely the same as barging into a random new site to tear its content apart, which I still maintain I simply do not do). Then we had a friendly conversation, and all I've heard from her since is when she asked me about using my quiz scripts. If she has suddenly gone back to hating me, I'm frankly puzzled; we have not had any dealings since then, and if I was rude in her shoutbox (I still don't remember precisely what I said), I apologized for the possibility in that exchange, more than a year ago.



Now that I think about it, I think when I criticized your site, it was mainly because of all the stolen pictures you had with no credit given. As it happens, I take plagiarism very seriously, and yes, when I see a site has stolen content, I will comment on that. Again, however, that is a very, very different thing from waltzing uninvited into some random new site and starting to criticize its content. I am perfectly aware that that would be obnoxious and thus am very unlikely to ever do it.



Getting people to give credit for the pictures they take from the Internet and not list random sites they like as affiliates is not "picking on" the poor innocent webmasters. It is quite simply the right thing to do. If I happen to have been particularly annoyed when I did it, I'm sorry, but coming in here and accusing me of taking pleasure in tearing others down is simply twisting the truth to make me look bad.

[14/05/2009 22:22:59]

R'o
Commenting on: 05-06-09

You should update COST with the news of the new Gold/Silver remakes. I'm interested to see what witty commentary you would give to the news.

[14/05/2009 20:37:32]

Typhloise

That would be more disappointing than the fake games that came up a couple of years ago… Made me sad…

[14/05/2009 19:18:05]

KyuuFox

I just had a horrible thought!



What if, next month, CoroCoro had an article called "The Ultimate April Fools Day Joke" about how Nintendo decided to pretend to be remaking Gold and Silver? They waited until May so people wouldn't think it was a joke!



…It's all one big conspiracy!



~ Solrock for spammifier

[14/05/2009 15:51:56]

Mew

Butterfree, didn't you read my earlier post? me am only 10.



p.s. me am training my sister to like pokemon. if she was in the anime, she would be a coordinator.



p.p.s. Mew for spamifier!!!!!

[14/05/2009 13:19:39]

Typhloise

Butterfree is perfectly capable of finding that news and owning a news site. However, I believe that she doesn't want to. As stated in the FAQ's, she said that this was not a news site, but a fan site to voice her opinion. Even the CoST contains her opinion, along with the news.



TCoD is the best fan site i have ever been to, and I thank you for it Butterfree.

[14/05/2009 11:20:47]

GSDS

Sorry, didn't mean to make you mad



don't sell yourself short, you can and you do compete with other "big" pokemon websites



you are the only site that i know that has a collection of all the sprites in one package neatly organized and all

that is the one thing that makes you stand out of the crowd in my eyes



i looked and looked to find a site with what you have, never found one beside yours



you have a great site and i say it is good in it's own way



pokebeach centers on tcg and important news

serebii centers on anime and important news

dragonflycave centers on whatever the f*** it wants to and the important news



i love your site also for the guestbook, on every other site you have to sign in and comment. on your site you don't need to

I LOVE THAT ABOUT YOUR SITE!!!



did i make my point…



*squirtle for spammy*



by the way how does the spammifier prevent spam

just explain the whole concept of spammifiers

[14/05/2009 04:12:28]

ShinyRiolu
Website: Lucarilution

Well, maybe this'll jog your memory…

Click it!

And I don't recall asking you for critiscizm. Blursh wouldn't lie to me…

She told me you were picking her site's faults out when it wasn't even ready to be on the Internet yet.

[14/05/2009 01:45:58]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

The Cave of Speculative Theories was never meant to do the job of PokéBeach or Serebii.net and never has. It's nothing more than a blog where I post my commentary on Pokémon news that I happen to be interested in once they have already been posted by other sites. I'm slower, know less and don't even post everything I know. I could never compete with the big news sites as an actual source and am not trying to. I just discuss the implications of what's in the news.

[13/05/2009 21:48:47]

Taliax
Commenting on: 05-06-09

You should still make a crossword soon. It's been too long since I've killed my brain trying to answer annoyingly hard questions!

[13/05/2009 21:45:45]

GSDS

More images have surfaced!!



how do i know this



Not serebii (no disrespect)

not even you butterfree (definitely no disrespect)

but pokebeach.com told me

[13/05/2009 21:04:21]

GSDS

do you think there will ever be anymore remakes (RSE or FRLG) just to make them all on the DS

[13/05/2009 20:53:53]

GSDS

i agree with buterfree



you should update Cave of speculation theory more often though



you are losing your visitors (like me) to pokebeach.com



not that i dont visit your site everday



i dont like the idea of a pokemon following you throughout the entire game. i hated it when i had to lead that girl through the forest in DPPt



i dont know, i just dont like that concept and i dont like ambipom



miltank for spammy

[13/05/2009 19:51:11]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

…there is… absolutely no reason to think they would ever do that and it makes no sense.



Why include all four regions? Why would we want to repeat the Sinnoh adventure we already had in Diamond and Pearl? And if transfering Pokémon between the regions were nigh-impossible, it would essentially be making four games and squeezing them onto the same game card. I'd much rather have one game done properly than four cut down so that they'll all fit on there, just so we can repeat the exact same adventures we had in previous games that we already own.

[13/05/2009 19:13:58]

Mew

what if… what if the GS remakes let you get into all four regions, but they have seperate pc systems and you have to pay 100,000 pokedollars to transfer a pokemon between regions?

[13/05/2009 17:24:37]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

I was trying to post an update to the Cave of Speculative Theories yesterday with the CoroCoro scan, actually, but the server is having odd problems where it complains about having no disk space even when I cleaned out a whole bunch just the day before. :/ Meanwhile, you can also see the scan here.

[13/05/2009 16:14:49]